Il8 DR. A. RANDELL JACKSON ON THE 



able to announce that five 1 of the species of that genus had 

 already been described under Microneta, and that three 2 

 Microneta were also redundant and are not specific entities. 



This leaves us with eleven good species of the old genus 

 Microneta, which, with the addition of Syedra pholcommoides 

 Camb. and a new species described in this paper, gives a total 

 of thirteen species, closely resembling each other in facies and 

 the structure of the genital organs in both sexes. There are 

 however such differences in the armature of the appendages 

 that I fear it is necessary to arrange them in four groups, 

 which in the present state of Arachnology must be regarded 

 as genera. I have tried hard to persuade myself that their 

 value is only subgeneric, but it will not do. 



There is within these four groups a certain amount or 

 variation amongst the species, so that it would be very easy 

 for a person of a "splitting" turn of mind to increase the 

 number of genera still more. These variations are however 

 in my opinion distinctly subgeneric, and I therefore arrange 

 the British Micronetoid spiders as follows : — 



Syedra pholcommoides Camb. 

 Syedra innotabilis Camb. 

 Micryphantes rurestris C. L. K. 

 Micryphantes sublimis Camb. 

 Micryphantes beatus Camb. 

 Micryphantes mollis Camb. 

 Micryphantes saxatilis Blackwall. 

 Microneta viaria Blackwall. 

 Agyneta conigera Camb. 

 Agyneta decora Camb. 

 Agyneta subtilis Camb. 

 Agyneta cauta Camb. 

 Agyneta ramosa sp. nov. 



1 S. oblivia Camb., S. acria Camb., S. Frederici Camb., S.protnincns 

 Camb., S. nescia Camb. 



2 M. mystica Camb., M.jitgulans Camb., M.passiva Camb. 



